44 Responses to Well who would want anti-social injustice?

They then wonder why the public is skeptical. The public is capable of supporting many things if they know what it is, and there is some objective measure that tells the public if the goal has been attained.

Since I’m rambling, at some (wanky) training course eons ago, the instructor said that targets should be START … which is something like specific, tangible, achievable, realistic and who knows. Anyway, the left doesn’t like to define targets that can be met, because they’re always unhappy. Sensible people like goals that can be met through the application of a well-conceived plan and some effort.

Ahh Mayan….a reminder of the good old days of Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time Bound objectives. It’s even taught to high school students.
The pursuit of Social Justice by churches and religious schools is a cover-up for abrogating their duty to their original teachings.

“The pursuit of Social Justice by churches and religious schools is a cover-up for abrogating their duty to their original teachings.”

Yes.

The likes of The Very Reverend Tim Costello uses it to enrich himself, with his several hundred thousand a year salary paid by impressionable teenage girls donating $5 a time to big brown starving baby eyes images shot in Africa somewhere.

Like everything else by the left, it’s nothing more than a political narrative. It’s something vague upon which leftist agenda can be added to in any situation. It provides a ‘moral’ basis for forcing their agenda on everyone in every situation. It is a purely political concept upon which to frame arguments. Once you allow the left to frame any argument around the term ‘social justice’, you have already lost. It’s sales 101 – control the discussion, and you control the outcome. Everyone fighting the left must understand this concept, as you must control the framing of any argument if you want to have any hope of controlling the outcome.

Social justice in whatever form usually involves children. If a cause shows children being threatened you can assume it has the requisite approval from the luvvies. In using children to support the cause the imagery is always inventive. And who can forget the exploding kids. If you’ve got exploding kids you’ve got a good cause. Which explains hamas and their PR skills.

Social justice: Statistics are presented and injustice is implied because the stats are not uniformly distributed. Random groups of people are then punished and rewarded, even with no individual guilty party or victim shown to exist.

Social justice will only be achieved when;
all children are conceived via IVF so the lesbians aren’t discriminated against;
all buildings will have 26 toilets, one for each gender, so the LGBTI etc aren’t…;
all small businesses must employ at least 26 staff, one of each sexual identity so…;
You get the idea.
Ooh, I’m angry this morning. Wanna know why? My local council is installing a clifftop fence against the wishes of 80% of the residents. Nobody fell off, no incidents but 4 people “fell off” distant cliffs in the past 15 years!!!! And a 4-foot high fence is going to prevent such future incidents.
We jump off my local cliffs all the time. In hanggliders and paragliders. Great fun, beautiful sports. No accidents, no deaths. $300,000 budget to stop us doing it. Go Onkaparinga Council!! Public servants? Pigs arse. With apologies to all the animals who feel their arses are not getting social justice.

Social meeja called for “justice for Jono Moylan.” I thought, fair enough – so I too called for justice for him on my social meeja. Thing is it seems to have meant something different to them, because they were happy with his $1000 bond after a $314m impact on markets from his corporate fraud, and I was unhappy enough to write a angry letter to Brandis666.

Then there’s “social licence” which apparently requires the approval of people 1000km from a mining project that will never affect them, with some single figure % enough to veto it. If I understood the term, I would have thought beyond any dispute the Worlds Biggest Carbon Tax had its social licence withdrawn. Again, it appears to mean something different – here if 8% of the country want it, there is no social licence for its repeal.

The term “social justice” is bandied about in much the same way “human rights” can apply to anything people want to promote. It is the catchcry of many with giant chips on their shoulder and others who are professional “rescuers”.

Nevertheless if you had walked through the slums of London’s East End in Victorian times the meaning of “social justice” would have been rather more vivid – as it would in many third world kleptocracies today.

Before trying to get my head around the idea of anti-social injustice, I felt it necessary to seek a legal opinion about social justice- legal opinion makers being so expert in the matter of evasion of clarity.
The appropriate expert was a fellow who is famous for giving free advice to the world’s wealthiest.
Dryden translating Plutarch quoting Solon:

“Such power I gave the people as might do,
Abridged not what they had, now lavished new,
Those that were great in wealth and high in place
My counsel likewise kept from all disgrace.
Before them both I held my shield of might,
And let not either touch the other’s right.”

Social justice to Solon meant giving each social class its due, not upsetting the apple cart, nothing Draconian and keeping in mind who can pay best for advice.
He wasn’t really mad of course. He knew Croesus didn’t get rich by paying for bad legal advice. Of course Croesus promptly lost the lot (be warned about gift advice from Greek lawgivers with bearing).
Accordingly, my view is that anti-social injustice is the consequence of acting on any social justice consensus.
The only qualification is that certainty depends on whether Croesus was happier counting his wealth or his last chicken.

Sorry, I messed up some of the translation. The word “socialist” embodied in the prefix “social-” usually negates the following word, so the correct translations are:
social justice = socialist injustice
social security = socialist insecurity
social order = socialist disorder
social issues = socialist non-issues